Israeli Women Share Harrowing Experiences of Abuse in Gaza Captivity in Shocking and Revolting Knesset Testimony

Israeli women held hostage in the Gaza Strip are being subjected to regular sexual abuse, with their guards treating them like ‘dolls,’ survivors of October 7 testified in the Knesset on Tuesday. They added to an overwhelming and disgusting body of evidence that Hamas weaponized rape sexual assault, against women and men, and is likely still violating victims in captivity.

Hamas and the local population engaged in widespread sexual assault during their savage rampage on southern Israel, when more than 3000 terrorists and sadist invaded by land, sea, and air, killing 1,200 people — a majority of them civilians — and taking 253 others hostage into Gaza. But the sexual savagery and torture was just beginning.

Aviva Siegel, a former hostage was an eye-witness to the abuse: “I saw it with my own eyes. I felt as if the girls in captivity were my daughters. The terrorists bring inappropriate clothes, clothes for dolls and turn the girls into their dolls. Dolls on a string with which you can do whatever you want, whenever you want.” She reported witnessing a captor take a female into a bathroom and clear was not there to keep the light on. etails: “And excuse my language, but this son of a bitch had touched her. And he didn’t even let me hug her after it happened. It’s terrible, simply terrible. I told her I was sorry.”

Shir, her daughter, implored the Knesset committee hearing their testimony: “Where are the really important people? The decision makers who sit in the cabinet and aren’t hearing this? Right now there is someone being raped in a tunnel.” She added: “We have no right to just sit here; we need to scream for them.” – Shir

There is also explicit concern for possible pregnancies and health risks. Some of the women who remain in Gaza have stopped getting their periods, Chen Goldstein Almog, released alongside three of her four children during the ceasefire, said during Tuesday’s hearing.”

As the world bears witness to these revelations, the survivors’ voices demand justice and accountability for the heinous crimes committed by Hamas. Aviva Siegel’s words echo as a haunting reminder: “I can’t breathe, I can’t deal with it, it’s too hard. It’s been nearly four months, and they are still there. My body is there. The boys also go through abuse — what the girls go through. Maybe they don’t get pregnant [but] they are also puppets on a string.”